The Kenai Mountains ( Dena'ina: ''Yaghanen Dghili'') are a

mountain range A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills arranged in a line and connected by high ground. A mountain system or mountain belt is a group of mountain ranges with similarity in form, structure, and alignment that have ari ...

in the U.S. state of

Alaska Alaska ( ; russian: Аляска, Alyaska; ale, Alax̂sxax̂; ; ems, Alas'kaaq; Yup'ik: ''Alaskaq''; tli, Anáaski) is a state located in the Western United States on the northwest extremity of North America. A semi-exclave of the U ...

. They extend 192 km (120 mi) northeast from the southern end of the

Kenai Peninsula The Kenai Peninsula ( Dena'ina: ''Yaghenen'') is a large peninsula jutting from the coast of Southcentral Alaska. The name Kenai (, ) is derived from the word "Kenaitze" or "Kenaitze Indian Tribe", the name of the Native Athabascan Alaskan tribe ...

to the

Chugach Mountains The Chugach Mountains of southern Alaska are the northernmost of the several mountain ranges that make up the Pacific Coast Ranges of the western edge of North America. The range is about long and wide, and extends from the Knik and Turnaga ...

, and have an average elevation of 3,000 to 5,000 feet. The

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and Sargent Icefields, as well as the many glaciers that emanate from them, originate in the Kenai Mountains. Several prime fish-producing rivers, including the Kenai River and the Russian River, also flow from the mountains. The Dena'ina call the mountains ''Yaghanen Dghili'', meaning "good land mountains". The name "Kenai" was first published by Constantin Grewingk in 1849, who obtained his information from I. G. Wosnesenski's account of a voyage to the area in 1842.

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File:Turnagain Arm Carpathian Peak Alaska.jpeg,

Carpathian Peak Carpathian Peak is a prominent mountain summit located in the Kenai Mountains, in the U.S. state of Alaska. The peak is situated in Chugach National Forest, southwest of Whittier, Alaska, at the isthmus of the Kenai Peninsula, where the Kenai M ...

seen from Turnagain Arm Image:HardingIcefield1.jpg, Skilak Glacier in the Kenai Mountains File:Mount Alice seen from Mount Marathon.jpg, Mount Alice seen from

Mount Marathon Mount Marathon, or officially Marathon Mountain, is a mountain summit directly west of Seward in the Kenai Mountains in the U.S. state of Alaska. The peak is situated in Chugach National Forest, rising above Resurrection Bay, south of Mount ...

File:Looking across Portage Lake toward Bard Peak.jpg, Looking across Portage Lake toward

Bard Peak Bard Peak is a high and prominent mountain summit in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The thirteener is located in Arapaho National Forest, west-northwest ( bearing 293°) of the Town of Silver Plume in Clear Cre ...

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* ;Notes Kenai Fjords National Park Kenai Mountains-Turnagain Arm National Heritage Area Mountain ranges of Alaska Mountains of Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska {{KenaiPeninsulaAK-geo-stub